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        Windows Azure is Microsoft&#39;s cloud<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_platform" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Application platform">application platform</a>. Windows Azure can be used to build a<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_application" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Web application">web application</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>that runs and stores its data in Microsoft datacenters. It can connect on-premises applications with each other or map between different sets of identity information.</p>
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        In June 2012, Windows Azure released the following new features:</p>
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        <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Websites allows developers to build sites using<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASP.NET" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="ASP.NET">ASP.NET</a>,<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="PHP">PHP</a>, or<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Node.js" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Node.js">Node.js</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>and can be deployed using<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTP" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="FTP">FTP</a>,<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Git (software)">Git</a>, 
            or<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Foundation_Server" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Team Foundation Server">Team Foundation Server</a>.</li>
        <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Virtual machines let developers migrate applications and infrastructure without changing existing code, and can run both<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Server" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Windows Server">Windows Server</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>and Linux<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Virtual machine">virtual machines</a>.</li>
        <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Cloud services - Microsoft&#39;s Platform as a Service (PaaS) environment that is used to create scalable applications and services. Supports multi-tier scenarios and automated deployments.</li>
        <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Data management - SQL Database, formerly known as<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_Azure" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="SQL Azure">SQL Azure</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>Database, works to create, scale and extend applications into the cloud using<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_SQL_Server" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Microsoft SQL Server">Microsoft SQL Server</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>technology. Integrates with<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Active Directory">Active 
            Directory</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_System_Center" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Microsoft System Center">Microsoft System Center</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Hadoop" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Apache Hadoop">Hadoop</a>.</li>
        <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Media services - A PaaS offering that can be used for encoding,<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_protection" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Content protection">content protection</a>, streaming, and/or analytics.</li>
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        The Windows Azure Platform provides an<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Application programming interface">API</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>built on<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REST" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="REST">REST</a>,<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="HTTP">HTTP</a>, and<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="XML">XML</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>that 
        allows a developer to interact with the services provided by Windows Azure. Microsoft also provides a client-side managed class library which encapsulates the functions of interacting with the services. It also integrates with<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_Studio" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Microsoft Visual Studio">Microsoft Visual Studio</a>, Git, and<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_(software)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Eclipse (software)">Eclipse</a>.</p>
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        In October 2012, Microsoft released a<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a class="external text" href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35473" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">downloadable PDF poster</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>that summarizes Windows Azure and the features in it. The PDF contains clickable areas pointing to additional documentation.</p>
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    <ul style="line-height: 19.1875px; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
        <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Web sites - High density hosting of web sites. This feature was announced in preview form in June 2012 at the Meet Windows Azure event.<sup id="cite_ref-meetnew_2-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Azure#cite_note-meetnew-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a></sup><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>Customers can create web sites in PHP,<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Framework" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title=".NET Framework">.NET</a>, and Node.js, or select from several 
            open source applications from a gallery to deploy. This comprises one aspect of the<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_as_a_service" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Platform as a service">Platform as a Service (PaaS)</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>offerings for the Windows Azure Platform.</li>
        <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Virtual machines - Announced in preview form at the Meet Windows Azure event in June 2012<sup id="cite_ref-meetnew_2-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Azure#cite_note-meetnew-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a></sup><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>the Windows Azure Virtual Machines comprise the<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure_as_a_service" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Infrastructure as a service">Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>offering 
            from Microsoft for their public cloud. Customers can create Virtual Machines, of which they have complete control, to run the Microsoft Data Centers. As of the preview the Virtual Machines supported<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Server" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Windows Server">Windows Server</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>2008 and 2012 operating systems and a few distributions of Linux. Since May 2013, the Virtual Machine offering left the preview state and went into General Availability state (GA).</li>
        <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Cloud services - Previously named &quot;Hosted Services&quot;, the Cloud Services for Windows Azure comprise one aspect of the PaaS offerings from the Windows Azure Platform. The Cloud Services are containers of hosted applications. These applications can be internet-facing public web applications (such as web sites and<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-commerce" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="E-commerce">e-commerce</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>solutions), or they can be private processing engines for other work, such as processing orders or analyzing data.<ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url();">
            <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Developers can write code for Cloud Services in a variety of different programming languages; however, there are specific<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Software development kit">software development kits</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>(SDKs) started by Microsoft for<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Python (programming language)">Python</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Java (programming language)">Java</a>,<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Node.js" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Node.js">node.JS</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title=".NET">.NET</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Azure#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a></sup><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>Other 
                languages may have support through Open Source projects. Microsoft published the<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_code" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Source code">source code</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>for their client libraries on<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="GitHub">GitHub</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Azure#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span>[</span>4<span>]</span></a></sup></li>
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        <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Data management<ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url();">
            <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">SQL Database</li>
            <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Tables</li>
            <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLOB" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="BLOB">BLOB</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>Storage</li>
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        <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Business Analytics<ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url();">
            <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">SQL Reporting</li>
            <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Data Marketplace</li>
            <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadoop" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Hadoop">Hadoop</a></li>
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        <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Identity<ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url();">
            <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Active Directory">Active Directory</a></li>
            <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Access Control Service</li>
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        <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Messaging<ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url();">
            <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Windows Azure Service Bus</li>
            <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Queues</li>
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        <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Media Services</li>
        <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Mobile Services</li>
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        Windows Azure uses a specialized operating system, called Windows Azure, to run its &quot;fabric layer&quot; — a cluster hosted at Microsoft&#39;s datacenters that manages computing and storage resources of the computers and provisions the resources (or a subset of them) to applications running on top of Windows Azure. Windows Azure has been described as a &quot;cloud layer&quot; on top of a number of Windows Server systems, which use Windows Server 2008 and a customized version of<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-V" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Hyper-V">Hyper-V</a>, known as the Windows Azure<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Hypervisor">Hypervisor</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>to 
        provide virtualization of services. Scaling and reliability are controlled by the Windows Azure Fabric Controller so the services and environment do not crash if one of the servers crashes within the Microsoft<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datacenter" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Datacenter">datacenter</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>and provides the management of the user&#39;s web application like memory resources and load balancing.</p>
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